Well it is a sad day. I hadn’t had the heart to tear down the thousands of tubes we had taped to the wall of my garage for the “Charlie” video. The set had been holding up quite nicely until the other day when I walked in to find that the tape just couldn’t take it any more, and our epic tube-rolled masterpiece had collapsed. Man, that was a lot of tubes. Don’t worry, they all got recycled.Speaking of tubes, aren’t these awesome?!
These are some TV tubes we’ve collected for the set. We’ve stepped up the pace on the art department end on the sci-fi in order to meet our filming deadline. Bianca Davies has joined the team and has been helping with texturing and development on some of the prop devices. Personally I’ve been trying to spend at least a few hours a day working out there. Mostly I’m spreading a messy a paste I concocted, made from sheetrock joint compound and paint, in order to get rid of the wood texture (urhg). The pros just buy nice wood and sand the crap out of it when doing fake metal surfaces, but we don’t have that kind of budget or patience so I’m working with what I have. (thanks Phill for the sheetrock joint compound!) Anyway, be sure to check out the sweet new set pictures.Also, our “Charlie” video, along with a number of other really great films, was shown at the Coppela Theater in San Francisco, in a festival coordinated by the SFSU Cinema Collective. 2 Men in Suits has also been accepted to a couple of larger festivals, details at eleven (or whenever I find out more).
